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Bluesky Social is a microblogging social platform being developed in conjunction with the decentralized AT Protocol. Previously invite-only, the flagship Beta app went public in February 2024. All are welcome!

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A COBOL programmer explains that this migration is impossible without catastrophe unless they want to destroy social security. (lemmynsfw.com)

submitted 2 weeks ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 42 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Best case scenario, they'll steal the money, never deliver anything and leave the old system in place

[–] [email protected] 21 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

Result is a Javascript wrapper that runs the same old routines amyway, but with a nice coat of coding paint.

[–] [email protected] 26 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

That would be too competent, since that's how real migrations work - you wrap COBOL in something that can integrate with more modern programming languages and replace it bit by bit, though hopefully not in JavaScript.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

Yeah, use [Java, C, Assembly, PHP...] instead

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

FAQ:

"My social security check is made out to [object Object], can I still deposit it?"

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 weeks ago

Poor Bobby Tables needs his too...

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 weeks ago

We're sorry, we can't accept a check for the amount of "NaN."